Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps to peddle rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting to short-sleeved women judged by the doorkeeper insufficiently dressed to enter the basilica. (After the hawker had made friends with the doorman, few prosperous-looking women...
Rotary traffic under the new system involves more than merely an automotive merry-go-round. In addition to keeping traffic circulating around the kiosk in a counter-clockwise direction, the current plan involves the elimination of all trolley-busses and removal of trolley-car track. To speed subway traffic, the exit on Massachusetts Avenue near Wadsworth House has been turned into another entrance. Bus loading stations have been moved from the kiosk to in front of the Coop, and the traffic booth and traffic lights both eliminated...
Mindful of the run on tickets for the Columbia game, seniors yesterday converged early on the HAA ticket counter to claim their priority seats for the October 8 Cornell game. It was the first business done according to the HAA's new ticket sale system...
Despite the fact that the entire counter was thrown open to meet the rush, many seniors had to wait as long as half an hour in lines that snaked to the hall outside the counter...
...wouldn't be fair to the boys in the next class," Lunden said. "We can't give a student a choice of section. It's up to him to get to the counter early in the morning, when seats in his own section are off sale...